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July 5, 1932. R. H. HELSEL ET AL 1,865,755

OPERATING MECHANISM FOR PUNCHES AND smmm mavrcns Filed June 23. 1931 .llllllllltl'ulll:

Patented July 5, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFECE REUBEN H. HELSEL, 0]? LONG ISLAND CITY, AND HILDING L. PIERSON, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS TO GENERAL REGISTER CORPORATION, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA OPERATING MECHANISM FOR PONCHES AND SIMILAR DEVICES Application filed June 23,

This invention relates to a mounting for facilitating the operation of the punch or like device.

Punches for perforating tickets are used largely by conductors on cars or trains, by gatemen and by other ticket takers or receivers. A device of this type is shown 1n Patent No. 1,457,913 in which a slot is provided for the ticket and a lever is used to operate the punch. In order to hold the ticket in the slot and to operate the punch lever both hands are required. This obviously preeludes the operator from performing any other function when the ticket is being punched.

This invention has for its salient object to provide a mounting so constructed and arranged that the ticket can be held and the punch or other device can be operated by one hand of the operator.

Further objects of the invention will appear from the following specification taken in connection with the drawing which forms a part of this application, and in which Fig. 1 is a front view of a punch havin operating mechanism constructed in accorc ance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in section of the structure shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the structure shown in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional elevation on an enlarged scale taken through the punch head.

The invention has been developed in connection with a punch having a slot for re ceiving a ticket, a punch plunger for perforating the-ticket and an operating lever hav ing a handle or thumb piece projecting from the punch and adapted upon depression to operate the punch. The invention briefly described consists of operating mechanism for actuating the handle or thumb piece. The mechanism comprises a bracket having a portion adapted to fit over a part of the punch and provided with a shelf for supporting a ticket which is in position to be punched and a handle lever disposed beneath the ledge and connected by link mechanism to operate a second lever which engages the punch han- 1931. Serial No. 546,238.

dle or thumb piece. The handle lever being disposed beneath the ledge can be operated by the same hand which holds the ticket on the ledge.

Further details of the invention will appear from the following description.

Although any desired form of hand operated punch or like device may be used in conjunction with the mounting, Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate a practical punch device similar to that shown in Patent No. 1,457,913 above referred to. In the punch shown in Fig. 1 there is shown a casing having a base or back plate 10. The punch is housed in the casing and is operated by a lever 11 mounted on a pivot 12. A handle 13 is secured to the lever and extends outside the casing. The inward movement of the lever 11 is limited by a stop 14. The lever 11 has a projection 15 which engages one end 16 of a lever 17 mounted on a fixed pivot 18.

The lever 17 is pivoted at 19 to a slide bar 20, the opposite end of which is pivoted at to bar 26 which extends upwardly in a punch head casing 27.

The slide bar 20 is slotted, as shown at 28, and a spring 29 is mounted in the slot and bears at its upper end against a block 30 disposed at the upper end of the slot. At its lower end the spring engages a block 31 mounted in the slot and the block 31 in turn engages one end 32 of a lever 33 which is mountedon a fixed pivot 34. The lever 33 has a hammer 35 at the opposite end thereof adapted to strike a bell 36, the bell operating mechanism forming no part of the present invention. This construction is illustrated in Patent No. 1,457,913, granted June 5, 1923.

The punch is also provided with a register or counter C which is operated by a stud 37 carried by the slide bar 20. This mechanism forms no part of the present invention.

The bar 26 has secured to the upper end thereof a punch head 40 having a hollow punch or cutter secured thereto and movable therewith. A guide 42 is formed in the punch head for the cutter. The punch head is provided with a notch or slot 43 for receiving a ticket, a block 44 being positioned on one side of the notch or slot and the cutter the lever from recess 60. movement ofthe bar 26 and'punch or cutter the'lower edge of the notch 43.

being disposed on the opposite side of the slot. The block is recessed, as shown at 45, to receive the punch when the punch is operated.

1 which bears on ahead of a :teeler pin 56 which is slidably mounted in the cutter or unch 41 andis movable'with'the cutter. The ower end of the pin 56, as shown in Fig. '2, extends beyond the operating end of the cutter.

The lowerend of thelever 50 viewing Fig. 2 is normally disposed in a recess-6O formed in the plate 10. The end 'ofthe recess 60 is disposed a slight distance beyond the lower end of the lever 50 so as to permit a limited movementof the punch device and feeler pin when the lever is inlocking position. If a ticket is disposed in the slot 48 the feeler in will engage the ticket and will be moved longitudinally in'the cutter 4e1'to a sufficient extent totilt the locking lever 50 and release The longitudinal is then permitted.

Although a particular form of punch has been described above it should be understood that :the invention is not limited Y to this specific type ofpunCh,-orin fact,-to. use with a punch, but'may be used in'conjunction with .any general characteristic set forth.

like hand operated device having the Tliepuncli'is supported on a suitable supporting plate 'h'aving a pair'o f studs 71 and'72projecting laterallythereirom. The stud .71 has ahead '73 and the stud "72 is "threaded "and "receives a thumb 'nut 7 1.

The punch operating mechanism consists of a bracket comprising'an elongated plate or bar 7 5- having its lower end oiiset, as shown at 76, and'bifurcated, asshown at'77. The

plate orbar 75 extends upwardly and outwardly and has'a right angle bend at its upper end forming a portion 7 8 and a downwardly extending end portion 7 9. The=por- '*'tion 79 is also bifurcated, as shown at 80.

The bracket is mounted on the plate-by engaging the studs'71 and 7 2 by the bifurcated end portions of the bracket and the bracket is-retained by tightening the thumb nut 74.

The upper end of the bracket has a laterally extending ledge 85'which is notched, as

shown-at- 86, to extend around the punch head and'is disposed in. a plane coinciding with Thus, a ticket positioned on the ledge 85 can be posi- -may be made without 'by the on a pivot pin 9& carried by the plate or bar 7 5. If desired, an anti-friction roller may be carried by the free end of the lever 92 for engagement with the punch operating handle 18.

The mechanism described operates as follows: When the operator desires to .punch the ticket the ticket is positioned on the ledge 85 and is entered in the notch 43. As

the ticket is held on the ledge by the hand of the operator the handle 89 is also engaged by the same hand as, for instance, by the operators thumb. As the handle is .raised the link 91 and lever 92 will be actuated to depress the punch handle 13 and punch the ticket.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that a simple, practical .and efficient punch operating device has been designed andthat by the use of the device .the operator can hold the ticket and operate the punch with one hand.

Although one specific embodiment of the invention has been particularly shown and described, it will be understood that the invention is capable of :modificationand that changes in the-construction and in the arrangement ofthe various cooperating parts departing from the spirit or scope of the invention, as expressed in the following claims.

hat we claim is:

1. In combination, a punch-device'having an operating member, a bracket (having a ticket supporting ledge, an element carried bracket and engaging said operating member, and means adjacent said ledge for operating said element and thus eflfectingthe operation of said operating member.

member, and means adjacent and below said ledge and movable upwardly toward said ledge for operating said element and thus effecting the operation of said operating member.

4:- In combination, a punch device having a movable operating handle, a support for 5 said punch device, a bracket mounted on said support and having a ledge for supporting a ticket to be punched, and means for operat ing said handle disposed adjacent said ledge and arranged to be operated by the hand of an operator as the ticket is held on the ledge. 5. In combination, a punch support, a punch mounted thereon, an operating member for said punch, a bracket detachably mounted on said support and having a ledge for supporting a ticket in position to be operated on by said punch, and actuating means for said operating member carried by the bracket.

6. In combination, a. punch support, a punch mounted thereon, an operating member for said punch, a bracket detachably mounted on said support and having a ledge for supporting a ticket in position to be operated on by said punch, and actuating means for said operating member carried by the bracket, said actuating means including a member positioned adjacent said ledge.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of June, 1931. so REUBEN H. HELSEL.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of June, 1931.

HILDING L. PIERSON. 

